[Bug 277126] ports-mgmt/pkg upgrade : add a hint: is release dropped

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277126

Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
Quoting the messaging that had been received and the
reference to what FreeBSD version was in use:

QUOTE
with 12.4-RELEASE pkg upgrade
I got just:
  Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
  pkg: http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: Not
Found
  repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
  pkg:
http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.pkg: Not
Found
  pkg:
http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.txz: Not
Found
  Unable to update repository FreeBSD
  Error updating repositories!
END QUOTE

https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/ reports:

Branch      Release      Type Release Date     EoL
releng/12.4 12.4-RELEASE n/a  December 5, 2022 December 31, 2023

It was publicly announced in 2023. Such announcements
also apply to the end of official pkg support and to
updating the port-packages.

According to the build fallout records the last build
failure for 12.* port package builds was:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg-fallout/2023-December/542748.html

and was:

=>> Building net/thcrut
build started at Sun Dec 31 14:26:45 UTC 2023


There were no port-package build runs for 12.* in 2024
or later (otherwise there would be some fallout). As far
as pkg goes, I'm not sure when the last port--packages
build from 2023 was removed, emptying or deleting:

http://pkgmir.geo.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/

I'm not aware of a way to figure that out from public
information. Technically, any such that was accessible
for part of 2024 (or later) still had an
unsupported/not-updated status at that time.

The more interesting time frame for "unsupported" is
when the updates have stopped, not when the later
emptying/deleting happens.

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